Asia Rising: Who Is Leading?

214 Pages·2008·3.63 MB·English

by  Amitav Acharya

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Who is Leading?
Amitav Acharya
World Scientific
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About the Author
Amitav Acharya was born in Orissa, India and educated in
India and Australia. He has taught at a number of uni-
versities around the world, including Canada (York Univer-
sity),USA(HarvardUniversity),Australia(SydneyUniversity),
Singapore (National University of Singapore and Nanyang
Technological University) and UK (University of Bristol). He
has written extensively on international affairs of the Asia-
Pacific region. His previous book on current affairs, The Age
of Fear: Power Versus Principle in the War on Terror, was pub-
lished in 2004. Though a full-time academic, he also writes
regularly for columns in a variety of news media. His hobbies
includetravelingandthestudyofHindu-Buddhistmonuments
inSoutheastAsia.HeismarriedtoDaiYing,whowasbornin
China, and they have a son, Arun Aparajit Acharya.
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Acknowledgements
Mydeepestgratitudeistothoseillustriousleadersofthemedia
who encouraged me to write and publish these commentaries
and showed a tolerance for the intrusion of an academic into
their profession which few academics would reciprocate. They
include Michael Richardson, formerly of the International
Herald Tribune, Michael Vatikiotis, former editor of Far
Eastern Economic Review, Barry Wain of the Asian Wall
Street Journal, Gwen Robinson of the Financial Times,
Nayan Chanda of YaleGlobal and Sekhar Gupta of TheIndian
Express, who got me to write an “East of India” column for
thenewspaper(whichIdidforawhile,butcouldnotcontinue
due to pressures of my job).
Many of these comments were based on lectures and pre-
sentations at institutions and conferences around the world,
bothAsiaandtheWest.Thenamesofthese,whereapplicable,
are mentioned in the front pages of the chapters. I am deeply
grateful to the organisers of these events for sponsoring my
lectures.
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